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Dust Bath, Satara, Kruger National Park
Dust Bath, Satara, Kruger National Park
HarveyG


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Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Sigma 170-500mm f/5-6.3 APO Aspherical for Nikon
Location: Near Satara, Kruger National Park. South Africa
Date: Aug 11, 2011
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/2500
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Jan 15, 2012

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Silly. I should have uploaded the non-border image...it will get DQ'd no doubt and there's no retract image option...aaargh

Comments welcome all the same :)

2012-01-15 Uploaded to 1x

Kruger National Park
30+ years of safari experience makes one sit in a hot car in the reserve (engine off, no aircon) and watch and wait for the shot to happen. It's a regular pastime of mine :)
Join me if you ever head this way :)

The family were playing in the water for hours and then suddenly they stopped, got out and went over and starting caking themselves with dust whilst wet. It suffocates parasites and acts as a sunblock.
Then without a sound the Bull emerged from the bush, as silent as a cat. He walked past his family, ignoring them, then one by one they stopped dust bathing and followed him into the bush.

It is a little known fact that Elephants communicate with one another with a rumbling noise emanating from their stomachs. We could hear this parked almost 100 meters from them...no trumpeting, just rumbles thanks to the engine being off. With windows open it's not that bad and correctly dressed and a cooler box full of cold ones...

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